Welcome to Saints Louis and Zelie Martin Legacy Garden of Life!
When you include Avila or Apostoli Viae in your will, your legacy story will be remembered in perpetuity in our ‘garden’. It will stand as a testimony of hope and faith for generations to come.
Read the grace-filled stories below of those who have generously put Avila or Apostoli Viae in their will.
God has blessed me more than I deserve. I was raised Catholic. I left the church my senior year in high school. I returned to the church 6 years later, with the help of the Blessed Mother and the messages of Medjugorje, and the prayers of my own mother. God blessed with a music ministry that has taken me all over the world. I could have never imagined what He had in store for me. And again, I did not deserve it. The pandemic changed everything in my spiritual life, for the better. Now, I am 100% All In. No turning back.
Avila Foundation started me on the road to the healing of my soul which Mary told me was a necessity. AV has made sure the healing continued by giving me a community to keep me accountable and give me clarity as I embarked on the journey of prayer needed to effect the opening of my heart and soul to the grace of healing. The caring and love from professors, classmates and fellow disciples have ensured my persistence on the narrow way, and I could not be more grateful. Out of joy and gratitude, these two entities are in my will for it is clear that the Lord has been made present and powerful in our lives.
While other options certainly came to the surface, a quick recap of blessings since my relatively brief association with AV (2020) made our decision the obvious one. Our short-list includes: Regular formation meetings, Free mini courses, spiritual direction, the marriage retreat, Liberacio, A Spring Break Mission-Trip destination. In short, EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS. Apostoli Viae has transformed, in my life, EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS most to me! When I recall these wonders, I found myself asking: “Lord, What offering can I make for all the good you have done for me through Apostoli Viae??” Listing AV as a beneficiary on our will has been, for us, one way to respond to that call.
Faith is like a great cathedral with beautiful stained-glass windows. Standing outside we cannot see or imagine the beauty of those windows, but standing inside every ray of sunlight reveals a harmony of multifaceted, unspeakable splendors (Carolyn Humphreys, O.C.D.S). With the love and guidance of the Avila Institute and Apostoli Viae community, I’m immersed in the beauty and fullness of our Catholic Faith and genuinely believe that God has forgiven my past sins, that he loves me (Isaiah 43:4 is a favorite of mine), and that when I fall, He wants me to come to Him for healing and forgiveness. Embracing the love Christ has opened doors revealing the splendors of what awaits me at the end of my earthly journey.
